• Analytical Science and Technology
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.96-104
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• 1998

A photodiode array multichannel detector system for capillary electrophoresis was developed. The photodiode array detector for capillary electrophoresis (CE-PDA) has 1024 photodetectors and can analyze sample by measuring UV/VIS absorption spectrum in 275~675 nm wavelength range. The CE-PDA instrument can get a spectrum in 30 ms during sample separation and can be programmed by a PC to control various experimental conditions required for sample analysis. The performance of the multichannel CE-PDA instrument was tested using L-ascorbic acid and alizarin yellow GG mixture. The reproducibility test of the CE-PDA system showed 5.6% RSD.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.19-29
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• 2003

This paper proposes a CMOS readout circuit for uncooled micro-bolometer arrays adopting a four-point step calibration technique. The proposed readout circuit employing an 11b analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a 7b digital-to-analog converter (DAC), and an automatic gain control circuit (AGC) extracts minute infrared (IR) signals from the large output signals of uncooled micro-bolometer arrays including DC bias currents, inter-pixel process variations, and self-heating effects. Die area and Power consumption of the ADC are minimized with merged-capacitor switching (MCS) technique adopted. The current mirror with high linearity is proposed at the output stage of the DAC to calibrate inter-pixel process variations and self-heating effects. The prototype is fabricated on a double-poly double-metal 1.2 um CMOS process and the measured power consumption is 110 ㎽ from a 4.5 V supply. The measured differential nonlinearity (DNL) and integrat nonlinearity (INL) of the 11b ADC show $\pm$0.9 LSB and $\pm$1.8 LSB, while the DNL and INL of the 7b DAC show $\pm$0.1 LSB and $\pm$0.1 LSB.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.929-934
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• 2018

Studies for counting and detecting X-rays for the improvement of image quality and material analysis are active. In this work, the detector for X-ray photon counting was designed using Multi-pixel photon counter (MPPC) array and the detector characteristics were evaluated through simulation. Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission (GATE) was used to obtain the position where the X-ray and the scintillation interacted, and this position was used as the light generation position of DETECT2000. 0.5 mm and 1 mm thick Gadolinium Aluminium Gallium Garnet (GAGG) scintillators were used and the light generated through a $4{\times}4$ array of MPPCs was acquired. The spatial resolution of the designed detector was evaluated by reconstructed image using the light signal acquired for each channel. We obtained images of more than 2 lp/mm in both 0.5 mm and 1 mm thick GAGG scintillation. When this detector is used in a X-ray system, a low-cost system capable of photon counting can be made.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.649-651
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• 2004

본 논문은 메모리 집적도의 증가로 인해 많이 발생하는 이웃 패턴 감응 고장에 대한 효율적인 테스팅 방법을 제안하고 있다. 기존의 테스팅 방법에서는 비트 단위의 순차적인 셀 어레이 접근으로 인해 결함 검출율과 테스팅 시간에 있어서 문제를 가지고 있다. 이러한 문제들을 본 논문에서는 이웃 패턴 감응 고장을 효율적으로 검출 할 수 있는 타일 방식으로 셀 어레이를 구분하여 이웃 셀의 영역을 제한한다 그리고 기본 셀과 이웃 셀에 필요한 패턴을 병렬로 입출력시킬 수 있는 병렬 접근 디코더와 검출기를 설계함으로써 전체 테스팅 시간을 줄이고 결함 검출율을 높일 수 있는 방법을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.23 no.10
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• pp.1298-1304
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• 2019

Since the 9·11 terror attack in 2001, the Maritime Logistics Security System has been strengthened and required X-ray image for every imported cargos from manufacturing countries to United States. For scanning cargos, the container inspection systems use high energy X-rays for examination of contents of a container to check the nuclear, explosive, dangerous and illegal materials. Nowadays, the X-ray cargo scanners are established and used by global technologies for inspection of suspected cargos in the customs agency but these technologies have not been localized and developed sufficiently. In this paper, we propose the X-ray array detector system which is a core component of the container scanning system. For implementation of X-ray array detector, the analog and digital signal processing units are fabricated with integrated hardware, FPGA logics and GUI software for real-time X-ray images. The implemented system is superior in terms of resolution and power consumption compared to the existing products currently used in ports.

• The Optical Journal
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• s.122
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• pp.41-43
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 최근에 민수용으로 활용 빈도가 높은 $320{\times}240$ 어레이를 갖는 비냉각 검출기에 적합하도록 F/1.0. 이중배율 광학계를 설계제작하여 열영상을 획득하고 광학성능을 확인하기 위하여 최소분해가능온도차(MRTD; Minimum Resolvable Temperature Difference) 값을 측정하고 사람과 차량의 탐지를 추정하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.10A
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• pp.775-779
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• 2003

A spatio-temporal searcher structure for 3rd generation W-CDMA systems is proposed to enhance the detection capability of the multi-path searcher for the desired signal. This searcher employs the spatio-temporal signal structure to search for newly emerging multipath signals. The proposed multi-path searcher provides better detection capability andthus reduces the mean acquisition time. The detection and false alarm probabilities of new and conventional schemes are calculated and numerical examples of mean acquisition time are given thereafter.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.48 no.4
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• pp.102-107
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• 2011

In this paper, a microfluidic array biochip for simultaneously detecting multiple antigen-antibody bindings was designed and implemented. The biochip has the single channel in which microreaction chambers are serially connected, and the antibody-coated microbeads are packed in each microreaction chamber. In addition, the weir structure was fabricated in the microchannel using the gray-scale photolithography in order to trap the microbeads in the microreaction chamber. Three kinds of antibodies were chosen, and the antibodies were immobilized onto the microbeads by the streptavidin-biotin conjugation. In the experiment, as the fluorescence-labeled antigens were injected into the microchannel, the antigen-antibody bindings were completed in 10 minutes. When the solution with multiple antigens was injected into the microchannel, it was observed that the fluorescence intensity increased in only the corresponding microreaction chambers with few non-specific binding. The microfluidic array biochip implemented in this study provides, even with the consumption of tiny amount of sample and fast reaction time to simultaneously detect multiple immunoreactions.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.48 no.9
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• pp.31-39
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a signal readout system with small area and low power consumption for CNT sensor arrays. The proposed system consists of signal readout circuitry, a digital controller, and UART I/O. The key components of the signal readout circuitry are 64 transimpedance amplifiers (TIA) and SAR-ADC with 11-bit resolution. The TIA adopts an active input current mirror (AICM) for voltage biasing and current amplification of a sensor. The proposed architecture can reduce area and power without sampling rate degradation because the 64 TIAs share a variable gain amplifier (VGA) which needs large area and high power due to resistive feedback. In addition, the SAR-ADC is designed for low power with modified algorithm where the operation of the lower bits can be skipped according to an input voltage level. The operation of ADC is controlled by a digital controller based on UART protocol. The data of ADC can be monitored on a computer terminal. The signal readout circuitry was designed with 0.13${\mu}m$ CMOS technology. It occupies the area of 0.173 $mm^2$ and consumes 77.06${\mu}W$ at the conversion rate of 640 samples/s. According to measurement, the linearity error is under 5.3% in the input sensing current range of 10nA - 10${\mu}A$. The UART I/O and the digital controller were designed with 0.18${\mu}m$ CMOS technology and their area is 0.251 $mm^2$.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.61-66
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• 2011

In this study, we evaluated the effect of grid size on dose calculation accuracy using 2 head & neck and 2 prostate IMRT cases and based on this study's findings, we also evaluated the efficiency of a 2D diode array detector for IMRT quality assurance. Dose distributions of four IMRT plan data were calculated at four calculation grid sizes (1.25, 2.5, 5, and 10 mm) and the calculated dose distributions were compared with measured dose distributions using 2D diode array detector. Although there was no obvious difference in pass rate of gamma analysis with 3 mm/3% acceptance criteria for the others except 10 mm grid size, we found that the pass rates of 2.5, 5 and 10 mm grid size were decreased 5%, 20% and 31.53% respectively according to the application of the fine acceptance criteria, 3 mm/3%, 2 mm/2% and 1 mm/1%. The calculation time were about 11.5 min, 4.77 min, 2.95 min, and 11.5 min at 1.25, 2.5, 5, and 10 mm, respectively and as the grid size increased to double, the calculation time decreased about one-half. The grid size effect was observed more clearly in the high gradient area than the low gradient area. In conclusion, 2.5 mm grid size is considered acceptable for most IMRT plans but at least in the high gradient area, 1.25 mm grid size is required to accurately predict the dose distribution. These results are exactly same as the precious studies' results and theory. So we confirmed that 2D array diode detector was suitable for the IMRT QA.